and liigli cultural significance of the work which Germany was accomplishing in her model settlement of Kiaou-chau in China.
An Englishman on the Hereros.
Henry Samuel, Esq., a well-known authority on South African affairs and an intimate friend of Cecil Rhodes, extolled the work of Germany in her southwest African possessions. * Furthermore he declared that Germany must give up the attempt to reform the natives, who belonged to the lowest types of the human race. This was a hopeless way to begin. According to his point of view it was necessary to get rid of the Hereros by placing them on reservations—according to the Australian system. The development of the colony could be hoped for only through settlement by whites. Here we have nothing less than a direct and expert British admonition to the German colonists to cease attempting to better the natives!—surely an admonition scarcely “in the interests of the population concerned.” Had such an opinion been vouchsafed by a German colonial authority, we should undoubtedly find it flaring in capitals in the pages of the English “Blue Book” as a particularly damning proof of the immorality of the German policy towards the blacks.
* “The Observer”, 1911 ,